If we get a write error writing to a trace descriptor, the
error isn't likely to go away if we keep writing. Instead,
you'll just get the same error over and over. E.g., try:
GIT_TRACE_PACKET=42 git ls-remote >/dev/null
You don't really need to see:
warning: unable to write trace for GIT_TRACE_PACKET: Bad file descriptor
hundreds of times. We could fallback to tracing to stderr,
as we do in the error code-path for open(), but there's not
much point. If the user fed us a bogus descriptor, they're
probably better off fixing their invocation. And if they
didn't, and we saw a transient error (e.g., ENOSPC writing
to a file), it probably doesn't help anybody to have half of
the trace in a file, and half on stderr.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted>
---
trace.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/trace.c b/trace.c
index 4efb256..083eb98 100644
--- a/trace.c
+++ b/trace.c
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ static void trace_write(struct trace_key *key, const void *buf, unsigned len)
normalize_trace_key(&key);
warning("unable to write trace for %s: %s",
key->key, strerror(errno));
+ trace_disable(key);
}
}
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